SMS Goeben - The Yavuz

SMS Goeben was the second Moltke-class battlecruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy), launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August von Goeben. Goeben, along with her sister ship Moltke, was an enlarged version of the previous German battlecruiser design, Von der Tann. The ship was very similar to Von der Tann, but had increased armor protection and two more main guns in an additional turret. Compared to her British rivals—the Indefatigable class—Goeben and her sister Moltke were significantly larger and better armored.

Following her commissioning in 1912, Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau formed the German Mediterranean Division (German: Mittelmeer-Division) later that year to secure a German presence in the area during the Balkan Wars. After the outbreak of World War I on July 28, 1914, Goeben and Breslau evaded British naval forces in the Mediterranean and reached Constantinople. The two ships were transferred to the Ottoman Empire on August 16, 1914, and renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim and Midilli, respectively. Yavuz Sultan Selim, frequently referred to as Yavuz for short, became the flagship of the Ottoman Navy. In 1936 she was officially renamed TCG Yavuz; she carried the remains of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from Istanbul to İzmit in 1938. Yavuz remained the flagship of the Turkish Navy until she was decommissioned in 1950.

The last surviving ship of the Imperial German Navy, Goeben was scrapped in 1973, after the German government declined an invitation to buy her back from Turkey. She was the longest-serving dreadnought.


Design: 22,979 t (22,616 LT; 25,330 ST)
Full load: 25,400 t (25,000 LT; 28,000 ST)
Length: 186.6 m (612 ft)
Beam: 30 m (98 ft)
Draft: 9.2 m (30 ft)
Propulsion: 4 screws, Parsons turbines
Design: 52,000 hp (39 MW)
Maximum: 85,782 hp (64 MW)
Speed: Design: 25.5 kn (47.2 km/h)
Maximum: 28.4 kn (52.6 km/h)
Range: 4,120 nm at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement: 43 officers 1,010 men
Armament: 10 × 28 cm (11 in) /50 calibre guns (5 × 2) 12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns 12 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) guns
Armor:




Belt: 280100 mm (113.9 in)
Barbettes: 230 mm (9.1 in)
Turrets: 230 mm
Deck: 76.225.4 mm (31 in)
Conning tower: 350 mm (14 in

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[FRAGIORGIO1]

Thank you for this fascinating video of a ship I looked up in Jane's Fighting Ships in the 1950s.. Shame she was scrapped. Isn't the name of the city where Ataturk's remains were taken "Ismir" rather than "Ismit" (for Smyrna)?  Thanks for the recommendation to look this up.

[DrGull1888]

@FRAGIORGIO1 Indeed a shame that she wasn't preserved.

Ismir and Ismit are two different cities. Ismir is indeed the former Smyrna at the Aegean Sea while Ismit is the former Nicomedia at the Asian side of Marmara Sea.

[p0l6rb36r]

Goeben had 11cm guns, like Von der Tann ,Moltke, & Seydlitz

[DrGull1888]

@p0l6rb36r I fear you are mistaken. She had 28cm guns which are 11 inches.

[chloe7829]

@p0l6rb36r 11cm guns would not have been much heavier than an 8.8cm AA gun or a more modern 10.5cm gun

[flammabletube]

A ship that started in infamy but then reclaimed it's honour fighting for the Turkisk navy and carrying the remains of a great Turkish patriot then to end up on the scrap heap a great disservice to the flagship of the Ottoman Empire

[Technisport]

What a shame that state-of-an-art battlecruiser now remains in scraps after causing Ottomans enter First World War which is a black mark in Turkish history.

[pearlsnaredrummer77]

Excellent video!!!

[IsengardMordor]

@artregeous Despite the scrapping,many parts of this battleship still remains in museums across Turkey.We should make a campaign for the re-construction of Yavuz.İt would have been awesome.

[Friedrich613]

Der erste Weltkrieg hat bewiesen,das die Türken der einzige Partner Deutschlands war auf denen sich das Reich verlassen konnte.Sie waren den deutschen Heer ebenbürtig.

[DrGull1888]

@artregeous Indeed poor Yavuz. Her fate simply is a shame.